Professor compares ETS to the Y2k scam

Ian Plimer, professor of mining geology and Adelaide University, has criticised the government’s plans for an ETS during a speech at a Sydney Mining Club lunch, saying:

If you thought Y2K was a scam, you wait for this one.

And he correctly points out that scientific research generally follows government policy:

“Scientists play politics the same as everyone else,” he said in his speech, entitled Human induced climate change – a load of hot air.”

“I think we’ve got people playing games in politics.”

If you want the research funding and if you want the money then … follow the money, follow the pocket of paradise, but it could actually send us broke.”

Read it here.